Parathyroid scintigraphy and minimal invasive surgery in parathyroid adenomas

Minimally-Invasive Parathyroid Surgery

Parathyroid surgery was first performed to correct primary hyperparathyroidism less than 100 years ago, and surgical treatment remains the only successful and durable cure for the disorder. 1,2 Techniques have evolved over the past century and continue to change and develop to this day. The conventional technique of bilateral neck exploration, though effective, has the disadvantage of being an ...

Minimally-invasive parathyroid surgery

During the last two decades, several techniques for minimally-invasive parathyroidectomy have been developed, including open approaches (open minimally-invasive parathyroidectomy - OMI P), minimally-invasive radio-guided parathyroidectomy (MI-RP), video-assisted parathyroidectomy (VAP), video-assisted parathyroidectomy through a lateral approach (VAP-LA) and purely endoscopic parathyroidectomy ...

Parathyroid scintigraphy.

Scintigraphy of the parathyroid glands continues to be controversial from several standpoints, including radiopharmaceutical choice, imaging protocol, results, and utility in clinical situations. This article reviews: the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the parathyroid glands; mechanisms of radiopharmaceutical localization; commonly accepted imaging protocols; image results; and the approp...

Thyroid and parathyroid scintigraphy

Minimally Invasive Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery

Since the 1980s, minimally invasive surgical techniques have attracted immense interest in all surgical specialties, including abdominal, thoracic and most recently head and neck surgery. This article aims at reviewing the emergence of minimally invasive thyroidectomy (MIT) and parathyroidectomy (MIP) and their applications to benign thyroid and parathyroid diseases respectively. For the purpos...